About Greenlining

The Greenlining Institute envisions a nation where communities of color thrive and race is never a barrier to economic opportunity. Because people of color will be the majority of our population by 2044, America will prosper only if communities of color prosper.

Allan S. Mirken, circa 1972
My dad fought in World War II, but didn’t talk about it much. As a doctor with the army in the Pacific, I’m sure he saw lots of things he didn’t want to remember. But he did tell me one thing that’s stuck with me vividly: “I was p***ed off they sent me to the Pacific. I wanted to go to Europe and kill Nazis.”
That’s no surprise. Though not observant, my dad’s family was Jewish. I can’t even imagine what it must have...

"Allan S. Mirken was a lifelong Republican, a conservative who proudly voted for Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan. He would be ashamed and embarrassed by the man now leading his party and occupying the oval office." ... See Less